Retired with a Reunion to attend

My high school class is having a 50 year reunion this weekend and I can't believe how excited I am getting.  I think most everyone likes to see old friends and tell the stories again, some of the stories are better now than they were a few years ago.  I volunteered to work on the committee and I am real glad I did that.  I had the time to do it, it was only about 10-15 miles from home and I got to meet old friends and talk about shcool and what we had done and what we were doing.  We all have changed a little and gottne older but when we get together we are young again and times are good.  The brain is a fantastic machine and seems to remember mostly the good times and fun things we did.  I many ways I know that the Good Lord was watching over me and had plans for me because I made it through some rough times and I am the better for it.

It is funny how you don't fear things or think about death when you are growing up, that's not going to happen to me.  As I look back and remember some of the people, and things we did in high school and in college it is a wonder that I am not dead or more messed up than I am.  I guess I was just enjoying the moment and not worrying about the consequences.  I am not saying that I came out clean with no bad days but I survived and hopefully learned from it.  I know that since I have been working on this reunion and thinking about seeing everyone again I remember those good days and know that there were bad days too.  I can not relive the past, my body wouldn't take it probably, but I can enjoy some of the great times as I remember them.

We have about 140 people coming to the reunion and that includes about 100 classmates from a class of about 200-250.  That is not a bad showing since some of us are gone now or live a long ways away.  Also it was difficult getting a hold of some of the people as they moved away and we lost contact with them and with the gals getting married and changing their names it made it even more difficult.  We got ahold of a lot of my class and it is funny how most of them are eager to attend the reunion and see old friends and classmates.  I know I have referred to my high school yearbook dozens of times in last six months.  I hear a name and have to look them up.  In some cases I don't even remember the name let alone the face.  It should be real interesting Saturday night when people show up and I try to recognize them, luckily there will have there ID badge on that will show their graduation picture and name on it because it has been 20 years since I have seen some of them and almost 50 years for some of the others.  I know I have put on a few pounds, actually only about 20-25, and my hair is longer but thinner and is almost silver now compared to full head of brown hair with a 'Butch cut' or "flat-top" as it was called then.

This is so exciting and with both the reunion and the Utah vacation coming up I have had a tough time relaxing.  It reminds me of the two kids in the 'Disneyland' commercial where the girl asks her brother if he is sleeping, he says 'No, I'm too excited!!!'  That is the way I feel.  Life is Good and I am So Blessed.